Pumpkin weekend!!

This has already been a really great weekend!! :-) Last night my two best friends Debs and Karen came to spend the night with me. Debs brought some pumpkin fudge and Debs, Karen, Ryan, and I all tried it Friday night and it was decadent. Absoulely amazing!!! Bright and early Saturday morning (okay, as bright and early as I want to get on a Saturday morning!) our friend Kristina met us at my apartment at 7:45am and we headed out to Starbucks for a quick breakfast. Debs and I both orderd the pumpkin spice latte (our favorite during the fall) and I got a pumpkin cream cheese muffin that was just divine. From there we headed out to the McIntosh Fall Festival - about 20 minutes outside of Gainesville. I L.O.V.E the McIntosh Fall Festival...I go to it every year and although I start celebrating/decorating for autumn on September 1st this is my first "official" fall activity. We walked around the festival for about two and a half hours and we all found some great stuff to buy. After lunch we headed back to Gainesville and had lunch at this great little place that we love - Mildred's. We had some delicious quiche and some great potaTOE soup (hee hee, Karen, Debs, and Kristina will get that because of what we saw at the McIntosh Fall Festival today). It was so delicious! Then we ordered a slice of pumpkin cheesecake for the four of us to share and it was as delicious as it looks - and you can see from the picture above that it looks yummy!! :-)

After lunch Kristina had to go pick up a birthday present and Debs had to head back to Jacksonville and Karen and I headed to Libby's school because they had their fall carnival today which is the big PTA fundraiser for the year. Each class works a booth and our class was going to have the dunk tank. Karen came with me to the carnival to help out at the booth, too. We got there thinking that we wouldn't be able to miss the dunk tank but there was no dunk tank to be found!! We found out that the dunk tank was broken so instead our class had the sponge toss. Teachers volunteered to have soaking wet sponges thrown at their face for 30 minutes at at time. Karen and I got there at 12:30 and were signed up to work until 3:00pm. Some of those children have an arm on them...they were throwing the sponge as hard as they could at the teachers and it was stinging the teachers faces. I kept trying to tell the children to just smack the teacher and not hurt them but some of those children seemed to be letting out some pent up frustration that they had with some teachers! :-)

What a great weekend so far!!